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Peer reviewedMerriman, William E.; Marazita, John M. – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Three experiments examined disambiguation effect, the attachment of novel nouns to unfamiliar objects, and the effect of preexposure to similar sounding words in 2-year olds. Preexposure was found to alter subjects' disambiguation of novel nouns, attesting to the importance of phonological working memory in toddlers' decisions about the likely…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Nouns, Phonology, Toddlers
